One Terrifying Eraser to Rule Them All
Plus: A mysterious airport pencil.
The Eraser Promised in the Subject Line
There is a drawer in our kitchen dedicated to office supplies: kids pencils, pens, markers, tape, etc. (None of the primo stuff, I’m no fool.) As we cleaned up the supplies the other day, I realized that there was an absurd collection of erasers that nobody would ever use, yet it was taking up space in the drawer. I put 12 seconds of thought into it and decided to glue them all together, creating one MEGA ERASER.
I waved away the children and their protests, fired up the glue gun, and brought my creation to life. Fifteen things became one repulsive, unusable crime against man and nature. I’m reminded of a recurring bit from Larry Miller, on his podcast of yore, when he would joke about how many almost used-up bars of soap he could fuse together into a usable mash. Listeners would call in with their own tales. This is my soapmash. - Ted
Out the Door Without a Pencil
I packed a pencil for a recent trip but apparently not. In the airport, I searched my pocket and then my backpack. Realized I was heading to the golden state without a Golden Bear, a Volume 170, or a California Cedar of any kind. No Camel, no Ticonderoga, that is to say, no No. 2.
Thank goodness for HMSHost, the highway and airport food service company that you may know for their $4 bottle of water. For half that price, you might find a Bruno Visconti Fun Graphics 2.0 pencil. I've spent 20 minutes trying to find a link to the pencil and I'm beginning to think the only way to get one is to buy a loosey at O'Hare.
My review: The lead was faintly reminiscent of a push-a-point pencil. It was perfect for marginalia — in that it wasn’t a pen. I lost the Bruno immediately upon returning home. -Adam
Adam’s Notebook the last couple weeks
Philosopher Agnes Collard on front of one page and Sesame Street x Wet 'n Wild on the back
Botanical vocabulary via poet Rebecca Lindberg
Mini playlists from the radio: Velvet Underground "Pale Blue Eyes" → Eels "I Like the Way This is Going" → Damien Jurado "Florence Jean" → Nick Drake "Fly"
My Movies To Watch list grows thanks to French radio station Radio France La B.O. Butch Cassidy died in 1908. What the film Blackthorn presupposes is … what if he didn't?